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...Liggett's Tightens Down

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prices in Square Edging Up, Investigation Reveals, as Buyers' Strike Gains Momentum | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...Liggett's manager explained the diminished 10-cent glasses of orange juice by saying "We're checking more closely on counter girls who had been serving more than required." Of the allegedly-reduced frappes, he said it had been just a question of beating--"The more you beat it the more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prices in Square Edging Up, Investigation Reveals, as Buyers' Strike Gains Momentum | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...Liggett's was taking inventory Sunday night with a sadistic gleam in its eye, but Monday morning found tooth-paste still within bounds, and the girl behind the counter still booked solid through July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Prices Hold as O.P.A. Dies; Mike's Club Vacillates on Frappes | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...company be monopolistic even though it does not exclude competition? Last week the U.S. Supreme Court said yes. In a unanimous decision which greatly broadened the definition of monopoly, the Court upheld the conviction of the Big Three cigaret companies (American, Reynolds, Liggett & Myers) and 13 top executives on antitrust charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monopoly with Competition | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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